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Random Ruminations Remotely Related to wRiting – Pirate Take Over – I Blame my Shoes

I Blame my Shoes By Jeff Hite Normally Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll takes the Friday spot, but today he is off on vacation, and being the pirate that I am I am going to lay claim to this spot and mark it with my own little X. Also, normally Philip talks about running and writing, [...]

Treasure Island Chapter 4

September 30, 2011
Treasure Island Chapter 4

 Subscribe To Treasue Island Chapter 4 The Old Sea Chest Chapter 4 This chapter features the voices of: Doc Coleman Michell Plested And SVAllie If you like what we are…

Autism Benefit Issue is Live!

September 29, 2011
Autism Benefit Issue is Live!

This issue includes: Meddling – Margaret Karmazin Brother’s Keeper – Kathleen Williamson Wide Awake – Emerian Rich Therapy – Jackie …Read the Rest

Please Spay Your Tribbles – The Headless Horseman

The Headless Horseman By Laura Nicole So if you haven’t been getting ready for Halloween for the past several months… then you probably aren’t in my circle of crazy Halloween friends here in New England. You should work on that… I digress. Halloween is only a few weeks away and the haunted attractions are getting [...]

Kindle A Fire

September 28, 2011
Kindle A Fire

Okay, okay I’m sure I’m not the first person to use this headline, but I couldn’t resist the bad pun. In case you haven’t heard, Amazon is releasing new versions of the Kindle and their pricing strategy (itself not new) is expanding to their new offerings. The low end Kindle won’t have a Keyboard (though [...]

The courage to do what’s write – I am Captain Malcolm Reynolds – Big Damn Heroes

I am Captain Malcolm Reynolds By Jeffrey Hite In so many ways I am Captain Malcolm Reynolds.  Or at least I want to be, there is no way that I could every be that cool. This turned out to be a very hard essay to write.  Not because it is hard to find things to [...]

Captain Jack Smiley and His Cadets

The Pirates have been pretty darn busy this summer, what with taking over the Galley table, and trying to get some contests started, not to mention, all the normal things…

Story is Where You Find It: The Captain Maps Media

While Flying Island Press is admittedly interested in people reading our stuff (see those links above to subscribe or buy an issue?), I also want to direct people’s attention to other places where I’ve found good story lately. After all, we just had a Galley Table episode about storytelling in different venues / mediums, so [...]

Random Ruminations Remotely Related to wRiting – Profanity

Profanity by: Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll I’m at the national assembly of the American Orthotic and Prosthetics Association. It’s in Las Vegas and ends tomorrow afternoon. I’ve learned a lot and changed a few paradigms that I have hung my beanie on for the last twenty six years. (I hope no one I work with [...]

Galley Table Episode Forty-nine: Alternate Forms of Story Telling

In episode forty-nine we talk about non-prose story telling. Guests: Zach Ricks JP Losier Doc Coleman Scott Roche Laura Nicole Mentioned: Ustream channel Shelter in Place Nathan Lowell Question of the Week: You have been given the power to make every High Schooler to read one book or one series of books. What is it? [...]

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